APCmag: Do You Trust This Penguin? May 19, 2004, 19 :00 UTC (18 Talkback[s]) (9306 reads) (Other stories by William Maher)
"For a small piece of software created by a hermit-like hacker in an Finnish bedroom, Linux’s rise to fame as the World’s Most Dangerous OS is nothing short of amazing.
"It's hard to think of a piece of software (or any other PC technology) that has had more ammunition thrown at it. It’s been called a virus, been the subject of a US$1 billion lawsuit, and described as a security risk and potential tool for terrorism. And its reputation and perceived threat to the Gates empire only seems to be growing with time. 'I'm not out to destroy Microsoft,' creator Linus Torvalds famously told a reporter last year. 'That will just be a completely unintentional side effect...'"
